Three aides at the Department of Housing and Urban Development no longer work for the agency anymore as of Monday, according to a new report.
The aides worked in the office of HUD’s chief information officer, Johnson Joy, and their contracts were suddenly terminated by Accel Corporation, sources at the agency told the Guardian. The corporation is a private employment agency that had provided several staff members to Joy’s office.
However, HUD had maintained that the aides were not terminated.
“The funds for the contract under which they worked have been fully expended,” Raffi Williams, a spokesperson for HUD, told the Guardian. “They were not terminated.”
Meanwhile, the agency’s inspector general and the Office of Special Counsel are investigating the relationship with Accel and HUD, although Accel has refuted that there has been any misconduct.
The development comes after Joy resigned last week following the publication of a report from the Guardian. The report revealed his connections to a colleague who had been sued on multiple occasions for alleged fraud.
